Muwatta' Malik 41-29

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik that Zurayq ibn Hakim informed him that he had a runaway slave who had stolen. He said, "The situation was obscure for me, so I wrote to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz to ask him about it. He was the governor at that time. I informed him that I had heard that if a runaway slave stole while he was a fugitive, his hand was not cut off. 'Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to contradict my letter, 'You wrote to me that you have heard that when the runaway slave steals, his hand is not cut off. Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, says in His Book, 'The thief, male and female, cut off the hands of both, as a recompense for what they have earned, and an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise.' (Sura 5 ayat 41) When his theft reaches a quarter of a dinar, and upwards, his hand is cut off.' " Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that al- Qasim ibn Muhammad and Salim ibn Abdullah and Urwa ibn az-Zubayr said, "When a runaway slave steals something for which cutting off the hand is obliged, his hand is cut off." Malik said, "The way of doing things amongst us about which there is no dispute is that when the runaway slave steals that for which cutting off the hand is obliged, his hand is cut off."

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Other narrations of this report

Muwatta' Malik 41-28Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28732Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28733Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19061Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19062al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17328

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān

   He was with Sulaymān like a minister (wazīr), and he assumed the caliphate after him, so he is counted among the rightly guided caliphs.d. 99 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH
   عُمَر بْن عَبْد الْعَزِيز بْن مَرْوَانوكان مع سليمان كالوزير وولي الخلافة بعده فعد مع الخلفاء الراشدين
   كتبت
2. 2
   Ruzayq b. Ḥakīm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 and 130 AH
   رُزَيْقِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍثقة
   أخبره
3. 3
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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